Editorial Epilogue to the Article “The Third Congress on Trial Before the Caucasian Mensheviks”

Published:Proletary, No. 14, August 29 (16), 1905.

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Inreproducing this article from the organ of the Caucasian League of the
R.S.D.L.P. (Borba Proletariata,[1]No. Iin Russian; No. 6 has appeared in the Armenian language, and No. 9 in
Georgian) we shall for our part add that the Caucasian Mensheviks were
practically the first to come out in the press not merely with
groundless abuse against the Congress (in the new-Iskraspirit), but with an attempt to question the representation of
absolutely definite Party committees. In its organ the Caucasian Union
has calmly and with close reasoning refuted the Mensheviks’ arguments
and splendidly proved the complete validity of the Third Congress of
the R.S.D.L.P., even if the five mandates disputed by the Mensheviks
were considered non-valid.

[1]Proletariatis Brdzola(The Struggle of the Proletariat)—an
illegal Bolshevik newspaper, organ of the Caucasian League of the R.S.D.L.P. It
was published between April-May 1903 and October 1905, twelve issues coming out
in all. The paper was published in Georgian, Armenian and Russian. The editorial
board was in close touch with Lenin and the Bolshevik centre abroad, and
systematically published reprints of articles by Lenin, and material from the
LeninistIskra, and later fromVperyodandProletary.